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Hybrid hype: types, tech, and the road ahead

Baua Electric

A hybrid vehicle is powered by at least one electric motor and a gasoline engine, and its system recovers energy through regenerative braking. Sometimes the electric motor does all of the work, other times the combustion engine does, and sometimes both work together. As a result, less fuel is burnt, and the fuel economy improves.

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Winterkorn says Volkswagen developing 10-speed DCT and high-performance diesel; plug-in hybrids offer great potential

Green Car Congress

At the International Vienna Motor Symposium Prof. In addition to lowering fuel consumption, CO 2 emissions and emissions of criteria pollutants, Volkswagen is striving to standardize mounting orientation, to realize a compact architecture to enable short overhang in the vehicles, and to reduce engine weight by up to 30%. Source: Prof.

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US files civil complaint against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche for alleged Clean Air Act violations

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The complaint alleges that nearly 600,000 diesel engine vehicles had illegal defeat devices installed that impair their emission control systems and cause emissions to exceed EPA’s standards, resulting in harmful air pollution. Motor vehicles equipped with illegal defeat devices cannot be certified. Porsche Cayenne (2013-2016).

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